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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1910
Page
6
An advertisement promotes Parisian Sage from the Newlin Drug Co as a remedy for dandruff and hair loss. It claims to restore a younger appearance, offers a 60 cent price with money back if ineffective, and notes production by Giroux Mfg. Co. in Buffalo New York.
The O R and N Co offers a special excursion train from La Grande to Portland with a two day two night stopover. Fares are $10.00 with travel to the beach and return by September 7. The train includes chair cars tourist and standard sleeping cars with ample hotel accommodations at the beach. Enquire of agent J H Keeney for details.
A small manual explains what causes appendicitis and how to prevent it. The pamphlet titled A Book Worth eRading is offered at no charge for a limited period by A. T. Hill.
Newlin Drug Co advertises up to date photo supplies and encourages customers to bring vacation memories home with Kodak products.
A dramatic tale unfolds as Jaques Chaboullez faces a deadly trap when a spy paper risks his execution. A Prussian skirmisher arrives to save him, while Mme. Chabouliez confesses a web of love, deceit, and a staged pocket document.
A Cleveland Leader aphorism notes an aviator may set a world record by rising six inches above the cost of living. Milwaukee Sentinel laments summer 1010 as an ice famine memory. St Louis Post Dispatch points out the bill payer has not forgotten high costs.
Mrs Ellen H Richards MIT sanitary chemistry professor offers practical heat tips. Eat less to spare internal heat, favor milk and bread, fruit, veal or chicken, and cheese. Avoid excess sugar alcohol and oily peels in lemonade. sip iced drinks rather than heavy meals. ice water helps, and limit ice cream to moderate amount.
A telegraph mix up sent a cook to Moscow as the new history professor at a St. Petersburg university. Though he knows nothing of history, he remains a professor for years as lectures draw no attendees. A Suwalky school door keeper, promoted to teacher, is also set for a future professorship, per the Moscow Letter.
Cartoon caption from the Boston Transcript jokes about a husband appeasing his wife with a hat to avoid a costly railroad trip to visit her mother. The line plays on domestic economy and travel fares as a comic remark.
A schoolyard brief features a boy saying he would choose to be a stockholder when grown. The quip appears in a column titled Argonaut, reflecting a playful local exchange.
Notice from La Grande City Council Oregon creating Improvement District No 16 on Sixth street to lay 5 foot cement walk and levy special assessment. The district runs from Washington avenue to N avenue with estimated cost 1718 90 and a public hearing set for August 17 1910 at 8 pm in the council chamber.
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